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Olympics to enhance Korea's reputation

The Winter Olympics started Friday with a grand opening ceremony in PyeongChang. At a time of geopolitical turbulence on the Korean Peninsula, the Games offer an opportunity for South Korea to present a positive image to the world enabling a brand makeover for the country.

2018-02-12 17:33

Limitations of AI

The artificial intelligence (AI) race has taken on the portentous public relations specter of the Soviet-U.S. race to the moon, or to build the first atomic bomb. Periodic announcements of milestone achievements confuse many because few understand what it means for an algorithm to pass a test reading literature.

2018-02-09 18:45

English and Hong Kong

As we edge towards 2047, some of us live in perpetual fear that one day we will be completely assimilated into China, that our economy will be subservient, our political system controlled, and our culture and values replaced by those of the multitudes from the mainland.

2018-02-04 17:01

New Chinese practice: blowing its own trumpet

China is opening 2018 by doing something that it never used to do: boasting about its achievements and comparing itself favorably with the United States, backed up by a Gallup poll that showed more people in the world approved of Chinese than American leadership in the age of Donald Trump.

2018-01-28 17:08

'America First'?

Donald Trump, an American merchant, one of the richest men not only in America, but also throughout the world, surprisingly jumped into the presidential election and unexpectedly won. His campaign motto was “America First.”

2018-01-17 16:52

Tillerson's flawed theory of deterrence

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been roughly treated by the White House of late. Perhaps that explains his dismissal of the possibility of deterring North Korea, a military midget compared to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China.

2018-01-14 16:22

#MeToo movement in China

In late 2015, I was invited to join a WeChat group of Chinese intellectuals. Before long, I was asked to lead the group. Soon, though, I found myself in a rather awkward situation, when a male member began posting salacious material daily, including topless men and women kissing, touching each other or having sex. At first, nobody said anything but when several members, inclu...

2018-01-10 17:38

Trump sees US soft power suffer

Donald Trump warned recently that the “world is watching Iran” after days of anti-government protests sparked by the country's economic woes.

2018-01-10 17:33

Space 2018: Better late than never

It's going to be a good year in space, and the new players are aiming high. The Indian Space Research Organization intends to send Chandrayaan-2, an uncrewed orbiter, lander and rover, to the moon in March.

2018-01-09 18:07

How US should deal with Xi Jinping

The long-suffering American hope that economic liberalization would yield intellectual and political freedom in China is officially dead after President Xi Jinping's coronation at last year's party congress. He emphasized party control, strengthened personal power, and stifled intellectual dissent.

2018-01-08 17:22

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